[CR] Wool vs. Lycra ...

(Example: Framebuilders:Dario Pegoretti)

From: "Robert Clair" <r.clair@cox.net>
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:31:06 -0400
Subject: [CR] Wool vs. Lycra ...


... when did you switch over ...

... was down at ft hunt, virginia (back in the not very distant past ... (1977 ? maybe) ) ... in my weekly (weakly) attempt to ride a bicycle ... when someone went by in those "newfangled" shiney shorts.

... here i was in wool shorts, rainbow suspenders, and a wool top ... in the middle of the hotest, most humid day of july. goodness knows how i got home that afternoon.

... needless to say a couple of weeks later we were on the horn to Branford Bikes in Stamford, CT (anyone remember them) with my two week paycheck for whatever they had in my (over) size Assos stuff. went through a few of those over the years.

... anyone recall a cigarette commercial around then to ... "i'd rather fight than switch". we swithched.

... innovation can be hard to accept, but that doesn't mean one can simply drop off the past either. but those shorts had to go ... the chamois must have been made out of 60-grit sandpaper :)

robert clair
downtown alexandria, virginia, usa